L’emergenza pandemica e la rivolta carceraria in Italia: alcune questioni penitenziarie ancora aperte

The pandemic emergency, which has inevitably involved penitentiary institutions, has frightened prisoners not only because of the greater contagiousness of the virus in closed places such as prisons, but also in the face of the flood of restrictive prescriptions dictated by the Prime Minister’s decrees. These decrees have effectively compressed the right of inmates to affectivity and communication. There has been an emergency within the emergency in 21 penitentiary institutions where protests, looting and evasions have been carried out. This is a useful starting point to address some of the unresolved issues that Covid-19 has removed the veil from.